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By Lisa Duncan A warm summer evening, a glass of wine on the terrace, and a theater experience unlike any other welcomed guests to opening night of Every Brilliant Thing at Ensemble Theatre Company’s New Vic Theatre. Directed by Jenny Sullivan, narrated by Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper, the production is staged in the round, allowing the audience […]
Every Brilliant Thing, the interactive, one-person play by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, traces the narrator’s lifelong journey which, from age 7, includes managing both their mother’s bouts with depression and her various attempts at suicide. The child comes up with the idea of cheering up his mom in the hospital by compiling an ever-growing […]
Three years ago Jonny Donahoe first brought Every Brilliant Thing to Center Stage as a benefit for New Beginnings – the longtime Santa Barbara nonprofit that has often employed the arts and entertainers to raise money and draw awareness to its mission of serving its underprivileged clientele with mental health services and more.Donahoe’s audience-conversant one-man […]
Every Brilliant Thing starts off as the story of a seven-year-old boy whose mother has been hospitalized with suicidal depression. In an effort to lift her spirits, he begins creating a list of the joys of life from his perspective, from ice cream, water fights, and badgers, to, as time goes by, Christopher Walken’s voice, […]
